The British pharmacopoeia / published under the direction of the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom, pursuant to the Acts XXI. & XXII. Victoria, CAP. XC. (1858) and XXV. & XXVI. Victoria, CAP. XCI. (1862).

General Medical Council.

Date:: 1899

Credit: The British pharmacopoeia / published under the direction of the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom, pursuant to the Acts XXI. & XXII. Victoria, CAP. XC. (1858) and XXV. & XXVI. Victoria, CAP. XCI. (1862). Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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$with ashy-grey blotches, with irregular longitudinal ridges and Bometimes with transverse cracks, inner surface cinnamon- coloxir to ruddy, smooth, longitudinally striate; fracture brittle, irregular, coarsely fibrous, and hght coloured when fresh ; odour faintly tan-like ; taste astringent. India. Australasian Colonies. Eastern Colonies. ACALYPHA. Acalypha. The fresh and the dried herb, Acalypha indica. Linn. [Wight, Icoties, plate 877]. Characters.—An annual stem, erect, from one to two feet (thi'ee to six decimetres) high, with ovate-cordate leaves, serrated and on longish petioles. The spikes are axillary, as long as the leaves. The male flowers are uppermost, enclosed in a funnel-shaped involucre opening on the inner side and serrated. Stamens eight to sixteen ; styles three ; capsules tricoccous, three-celled, one-seeded : flowers small, green. India. Eastern Colonies. AOETUM MYLABRIDIS. Vinegar of Mylabris. Mylabris, bruised . Glacial Acetic Acid and Distilled Water Macerate the Mylabris in eighteen fluid ounces (or nine hundred cubic centimetres) of the mixture of Glacial Acetic Acid and Distilled Water for twenty-four hours; transfer to a percolator; when the liquid ceases to pass, pour enough of the menstruum in successive portions over the contents of the percolator to produce one pint (or one thousand cubic centimetres) of the Vinegar of Mylabris. India. African Colonies. Eastern Coloniks. IMPERIAL METRIC . 2 ounces . 100 grammes mixed in equal volumes, a sufficient quantity$